Florida lawmakers to visit Alligator Alcatraz
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If adopted by the county commission Tuesday, an amended agreement with the federal government would authorize county correctional officers to transport immigration detainees at the request of ICE.
Due to the attention of Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center in the Florida Everglades, many may be wondering about the gator population here.
ICE received additional funding from President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," and Alligator Alcatraz began operating.
A man granted protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been sent to a newly opened detention center in the Everglades, known as Alligator Alcatraz, which was designed to hold illegal immigrants awaiting deportation.
President Donald Trump's visit to ICE's Alligator Alcatraz in the heart of Florida's swampland comes as he's pushed for more deportations of illegal immigrants.
"It's all for politics." Representative Maxwell Frost (D-FL) sits down with Jen Psaki to discuss the Trump administration's immigration raids and the newly opened migrant detention center in Florida dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" due to the dangerous wildlife that surrounds it.
Where is Alligator Alcatraz? Dubbed East Coast version of famed prison, Trump and Kristi Noem visited new ICE detention center in Ochopee, Florida.
After being denied entry to Alligator Alcatraz last week, Florida’s state and federal lawmakers have now been invited to tour the ICE detention center in the Everglades on Saturday.